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Show's Blackout Angers Pittsburgh Fans With PM-Wrestlemania Bjt

Show's Blackout Angers Pittsburgh Fans With PM-Wrestlemania Bjt

Show's Blackout Angers Pittsburgh Fans With PM-Wrestlemania Bjt

Apr. 01, 1985

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PITTSBURGH (AP) _ Angry professional wrestling fans, who knocked over a closed-circuit television screen when technical problems blacked out the satellite feed of ''Wrestlemania,'' are due to get ticket refunds today.

A total of 11,443 tickets, priced at $8 to $10 each, were sold to fans wanting to see the match at the Civic Arena. But there was nothing to see.

''We were scrambling up to the very last minute to get the thing on. It got to the point of no return,'' said Tom Rooney, vice president for advertising and promotion at the Arena.

''It looked like there was a problem in decoding the signal,'' he said. ''We had a scrambled picture and we were unable to unscramble the signal.''